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11/11/08

Hang this Albatross Around Shays' and the GOP's Necks...

Now I'm looking for the correct bird simile for Shays. It can't be the dodo, that gawky, waddling, flightless, 40-pound joke of an animal that was killed off by the late 1600s on their Indian Ocean island.

Shays actually has very little wealth apart from his house in Bridgeport.

I do wonder, though, how the districts will be redrawn in 2010 -- trade Ridgefield for the western half of Stratford? While the shift from 6->5 districts might have made the 4th more Republican, I don't think there are actually many non-ridiculous ways to change the district to make it more Democratic.

Are you sure about his finances matt? I have seen multi-millionaire numbers tossed around for him before. Though, I've never seen 8o million before?

Obviously there is no need to redistrict until population demands a change. That is the Republican way of doing things. I do, however, find it interesting that the mood of the population has shifted that much in seven years.

Connecticut has shifted a lot. Everybody calls this part of the state "conservative" yet, in my supposedly very Republican town, they voted for Lamont.

Which makes it doubly shocking that Chapin ran unopposed here. Given the voting records I could have seen Roraback running unopposed, but Chapin? I think someone to the left of him could have easily been competitive when you look at his hard right voting record.

I did not make my comment about Shay's wealth lightly. I read somewhere that he was worth something in the range between $50 million and $100 million. My bad if I was wrong. I still like the guy, but wrong party is still wrong.

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